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The College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 21
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937
Copyright TRUSTEES OF PRICE 10 CENTS
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1t37 �IV,E IU U3HI3
Economic Reforms
Found in English
Capitalist System
Mrs. Wootton Finds Extremes
Of Wealth or Poverty Still
Prevalent
"SALARIAT"
DIVISION
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OF
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SOCIETY
Goodhart Hall, April 12.�Under
the official title of Standards of Liv-
ing and Social Habits, Mrs. Barbara
Wootton, in the second Shaw lecture,
attempted to dispel the gloom evoked
by her previous talk. It was a picture
of achievement, greater for the ob-
stacles it overcame, painted against a
somber economic background. She
spoke on contemporary England, a
country which is finding its industries
and occupations hard hit, its trade
diminishing and its coal and textile
industries declining.
' After 150 years,"the present eco-
nomic system has reached a ripe mid-
dle age, and still presents unsolved
problems in industrial society. The
system has its admirers, those' who
believe it capable of infinite expan-
sion; and its opposition, those, like
Marx and Engel, who believe it- pre-
destined to ati early decline. Increas-
ing misery of the poor,- and the
gradual extinction of the middle class,
the buffer between the two extreme
classes, are the heralds of this decline.
Taking the long term view, Mrs.
Wootton proceeded to analyse the
trends in the English Social economic
system in the light of the opposition.
In the distribution of wealth we still
find great extremes of riches and
poverty. Distribution itself may be
regarded from several angles, namely,
the differences between kinds of ac-
tivities, between persons, and most
realistically, between families.
The difference between the income
received as manual labor wages, and
that received from the community in
other ways has been the same over a
long period. Since 1911, there have
been two cycles of prosperity and de-
pression, a major war, all kinds, of
political government and great tech-
nilogical change. Yet, 39 per cent of
the national income was paid out in
wages in 1911 and 40% per cent in
1935.
As for distribution by persons:
England has her very rich, rather
poor and very poor. One-fourth of
the national income is absorbed by the
\Vi per cent of the population who
are the elite. The official aristocracy
is relatively impoverished. The aris-
tocracy of wealth, however, remains
unshaken.
Concerning distribution by family,
Mrs. Wootton's statistics were most
enlightening. One of every seven of
the population live in a family where
the income per head is less than ten
shillings or $2.50 a week. "After
one hundred and fifty years of capi-
talism," repeated Mrs. Wootton, "this
is not a good achievement. The ex-
tremes of poverty and wealth are one
of the greatest failures of the sys-
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KEEP OFF THE GRASS
The Undergraduate Associa-
tion reminds everyone pleaee to
keep off the grass.
Newly-Formed Council *""
To Promote Peace Day
Campus Organizations Combine in
Student Movement^.
Rumors of Rcace Day which have
been permeating the campus for the
past few weeks have at -last been
realized. On April 22, at 11 o'clock,
academic activities will be suspended
for one hour while a meeting will be
held in Goodhart Auditorium in the
interests of peace. This, year the
demonstration will be under the di-
rection of an entirely different body.
Speakers wil^be recruited both from
the stu\W*/body and from outside.
Early in March, at the suggestion of
the Emergency Peace Campaign that
campus supporters of the Peace move-
ment unite to form a single body, the
Peace Council was formed. It is
composed of representatives of cam-
pus organizations interested in the
movement. The committee consists
of: Esther Hardenbergh, '37, chair-
man (Undergraduate Association);
Elizabeth Lyle, '37 (Lantern); Janet
Thorn, '38 (News); Eleanor Sayre,
'38, and Eleanor Taft, '39 (interna-
tional Club); Doris Turner, '39 (Cam-
era Club); Margaret LaFoy (Gradu-
ate), Letitia Brown, '37, and Louise
Morley, '40 (Bryn Mawr League);
Mary Hinckley Hutchings,'37 (French
Club); Mary Lee Powell, '37 (German
Club); Gertrude Leighton, "38 (Var-
sity Players Club); Hodee Waldstein
and Sylvia Wright, '38 (A. S. U.).
Its purpose is the coordination of
campus activities towards peace.
Thi�"group has planned the pro-
gram of Peace Day, has chosen the
undergraduate speaker and is consid-
ering the names of several well-
known speakers prominent in the
Peace Movement, from whom one will
he selected to head the* program.
Letitia Brown, '37, chosen to repre-
sent the students, will speak on the
outcome of the peace ballots as a pre-
liminary to the main speaker.
As. an expression of the work and
purpose of the council, Peace Day is
all the more effective because the
movement is prominent as a national
student affair not only at Bryn Mawr,
but all over the United States. The
fact that most of the big universities
and colleges have dedicated this par-
ticular hour to the promouon of peace
places especialy emphasis ohthe meet-
ing. In the case of Bryn M�wr, the
cooperation and support of the fac-
ulty and administration in this mat-
ter is to be appreciated both by those
who are already attracted by the
question of peace and those whom the
meeting will interest.
The demonstration will continue
under a more official aspect with a
meeting sponsored by the Philadelphia
Committee of the Emergency Peace
Campaign at-8.o'clock the same eve-
ning in the Philadcplhia Convention
Hall.
It is hoped that the Peace Council
will continue as a permament body.
Wild Animals Are Rampant in Deanery
In Movies Shown by C. Emerson Brown
Deanery, April 11.�Mr. C. Emer-
son Brown, who was for eighteen
years head of the Philadelphia Zo-
ological Garden, illustrated hislecture
on My Animal Friends with vivid
movies.
The first reel showed the antics of
"Bamboo," a young gorilla, and other
members of the ape family. "Little
Orphan Annie," a baby orang from
Borneo, was seen readily drinking her
milk from a large gin bottle.
Tn,......,K-mwafccl's of* the audienv
squealed with delight at the first
mention of elephants, and seemed to
find the pictures of "Liezie" taking
her bath in the pool the most fasci-
nating of all. "Lizzie," Mr. Brown
explained, is a one-man elephant, and
it is dangerous for anyone but her
regular keeper to approach her. He,
however, has no difficulty handling
her with the help of a long hook,
though it is often hard to persuade
her to leave^her^bath. The reel also
showed a pigmy elephant, one of the
two in this country. This elephant
found the pool too deep, so she now
takes her bath by means of a long
hose, with which she happily squirts
herself all over. �
Mr. Brown concluded his lecture by
showing a short reel entitled The
Killer Killed which showed the deadly
^VhgiMfejkjlled by a mongoose.
The mongoose teases its enemy, in-
ducing the snake to strike again and
again until it is quite worn out and
wishes to escape. "As soon as the
cobra turns aside, the mongoose grabs
it by the head and hangs on until the
snake is quite dead; finally carrying
it "home to eat.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 14.�Mr.
Samuel Fleisher� will speak on
� Playgrounds. Movies. Music
Room, 8.30.
Thursday, April 15. � Non-
resident te'a. Common Room,
4.30. 'x
Thomas Tippett will speak at
a Summer School meeting. Com-
mon Room, 8.
Philosophy Club meeting. Jane
Fulton will read her paper on
Absolute Knowledge in Plato.
Friday, April 16, and Satur-
day, April 17.'�Geology Field
Trip.
Sunday, April 18.�Hampton
Quartet will give a concert.
Deanery, 5.
Monday, April 19. � Anna
Howard Shaw lecture by Mrs.
Wootton. Goodhart, 8.20.
Tuesday, April 20.�Current
Events. Common Room, 7.30."^
Thursday, Aprils 22. � Peace
Meeting. Goodhart, 11.
Friday, April 23, a7id Satur-
day, April 2U.�Glee Club pro-
duction of The Mikado.
Saturday, April 21,.�French
Oral.
Monday, April 25. � Anna
Howard Shaw lecture by Mrs.
Wootton.
Archaeologist Speaks
On Finds at Heraeum
Paola Zancani-Montuoro Shows
Slides of Still Unpublished
Archaic Sculptures
EXCAVATION IS RECENT
Deanery, April 7.�The rare op-
portunity of seeing an important set
of archaic Greek metopes unearthed
in central It^ly, and as yet unpub-
lished, was given by Signora Paola
Zancani-Montuoro in a talk on Recent
Excavations at the Heraeum in Lu-
cama. The lecture was sponsored by
the Philadelphia Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America.
The Heraeum, the excavation of
which Signora Zancani-Montuoro is
financing and directing herself, was a
Greek temple well known to the
ancients and is described by many
Roman writers, including Strabo and
Pliny the Elder. In spite of its fre-
quent mention in written records, no
actual digging had ever been done on
the site until 1934, when Signora
Zancani-Montuoro began her expedi-
tion. The site was found in its tra-
ditional location, easily distinguished
by blocks of limestone and broken roof
tiles lying\ above ground. Excava-
tion revealed first the remains of
Doric capitals and fluted columns and
eventually the foundations of two
temples, one. large, the other smaller
and more archaic.
Of the large temple,, which is dated
at about 500 B. C, onjyfhVJounda-
tions remain, including three purses
of stone blocks and part of a fVirth.
At the four corners are buttresses to
secure the building against the slid-
ing and settling of the ground. Tho
small temple is very much more
archaic than the large one and prob-
ably dates back to the early sixth
century. The ruins show that its col-
umns were stuck directly into the
ground, a feature surviving from the
old wooden type of temple, which was
doubtless the first structure on the
site. J
Under the small temple 30J) vases
of Corinthian and Proto-Corinthian
style were found, showing habitation
of the place to have gone back to the
beginning of the seventh century. A
great many terra cotta statuettes were
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Summer School Drive
'ow On
Elections
Pembroke East, Pembroke
West � and Rockefeller have
elected the following as hall
presidents:
Pembroke East: Alice Chase,
'38.
Acting President, Gertrude
Leighton, '38.
Pembroke West: Blanca Noel,
'38.
Rockefeller: Mary Whalen,
'38.
Editorial in Lantern
Discussed at Chapel
Mrs. Manning Stresses Need for
Great Teachers
Music Room, April 9.�After pre-
liminary announcements about the fa-
vorable progress of the French and
German houses, Mrs. Manning turned
to the main topic of her chapel, the
educational theories in the March is-
sue of The Lantern. These, she indi-
cated, represent a completely different
point of view from that of educators,
because they state for what siudoius
are reaching. Educators, on the other
hand, must consider how to get the
maximum number of "great" teachers
on the faculty: teachers who will make
their classes interesting and inspire
their students' imagination.
"You can't train a great teacher
any more than you can train a great
musician, actor or preacher." A
"really great teacher" has certain
characteristics of genius, a human
quality which comes rarely. It is this
type of personality which all educa-
tors hope to place upon their faculties.
As to the extent to which school and
college education will prepare us for
the world we are to live in, Mrs. Man-
ning said, "How can any one assume
that a lot of middle-aged people
brought up in an individualistic world
can teach you to five in a collectivist
world? One cannot guess into the fu-
ture and adapt education for some-
thing to come." Education must be
broadened and made to include differ-
ent points of view.
The Lantern editorial said that edu-
cation followed traditional lines too
much. "This," said Mrs. Manning,
"is not true. Educators haye too lit-
tle a pattern -to fit education into."
There is a lack of unity and integra-
tion, due not to conventionality, buf
to the attempt to present a great
wealth of material-; twenty-five times
as much as a few years ago. This
large amount of material makes it
hard to. formulate a philosophy of
education.
The real question facing educators
today was made popular by Professor
Dewey. Is education too bookish?
This is important since we are de-
pendent on college board examina-
tions and high school courses, and
therefore we are tied up with the
education of a very large part of the
whole population. There is doubt
whether, from the ages of 14 to 18,
one-third of the population is neces-
sarily at a point where a "bookish"
education is the best thing for them.
It is true that we have gotten away
from stress on accuracy and verbal
memory, because of the tremendous
flow of material since the classical
scheme was abandoned. Undoubtedly
we are losing something because of
the present sketchy pattern. In the
first place, we lose the power of dis-
cussion as a group. Others have facts
right in their fingers and can express
ready points of view. Moreover, we
may develop the power of criticism
of other people, but we are not more
able to handle our own individual
problems. Therefore it is .now 'the
problem of education to make people
more sure of the exact ground they
are absorbing and to make them more
able to handle their material.
Pledge Cards Will �e
Distributed Thursday
Please Contribute
In Providence, R. I., Professor C.
H. McIIwain of Harvard,' charged the
�>>b)**�rnombers 6f the American
Historical Association with allowing
their work" to edge too close to thp
borders of romance, and called them
back from their self-imposed task of
rewriting history to brftg it into line
with modern modes of thought and
action. (A. C. P.)
Peace Ballots Are
Endeavor to Find
Current Opinions
Peace Council is Cooperating
With National, International
?�Movements
TRYING TO STIMULATE
GENERAL DISCUSSIONS
The College Peace Council, repre-
senting all organizations interested in
promoting world peace, has during
the^ past week distributed World
Youth Congress Peace Ballots to all
students. The purpose of the sheets,
which are to be filled out by Friday,
is two-fold: to determine campus
opinion on questions of peace, and to
cooperate with national and interna-
tional peace movements.
The Council was started this year
by a group of undergraduates who
wished to unite along lines suggested
by Mr. Philip Jacobs, a member of
the Emergency Peace Campaign who
spoke at college earlier this year.
Esther Hardenbergh, '37, president
of the Undergraduate Association, is
chairman of the council; the Inter-
national Club, the American Students'
Union, the Bryn Mawr League, the
Graduate Club' in Radnor, Varsity
Players' Club, French Club, The Lan-
tern and The College News, are regu-
larly represented in*the Council. ��
The World Youth Congress^ Peace
Ballot was chosen as a suitable
method to call general student atten-
tion to pertinent questions and to the
work which the Council is doing. The
World Youth Congress is also com-
paratively recent. First held in
Geneva last summer, it had delegates
from thirty-six countries. The Con-
gress is continuing its work by try-
ins: to keep in the closest possible
contact with current student opinion.
By formally soliciting votes, the
Bryn Mawr Peace Council hopes to
stimulate discussion on questions cov-
ered in the ballot: the course the
United States should follow ^in re-
gard to foreign wars, either threat-
ened or actual; the reaction of the
American should his country be in-
volved in war; effective methods of
jng world problems; the questions
of military and naval budgets. The
votes are to be handed in on Friday
before dinner, and the final results
are to be announced at the peace
meeting April 22.
The Council posts articles of in-
terest to the peace movement on the
bulletin board outside of Room E in
Taylor.
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George Lyman Kittredge -
To Speak in Goodhart
Shakespeare's Villains is Subject of
* Professor's'Lecture
The Anne Sheble Memorial Lecture
in English Literature will be given
by Mr. George Lyman Kittredge on
Shakespeare's Villains, April 29, in
Goodhart Hall. Mr. Kittredge was
Gurney Professor of English Litera-
ture at Harvard from 1894 until his
retirement last September. Gradu-
ated in 1-882, he returned six years
later ,as an instructor.
At Harvard he conducted the
famous advanced course in Shak-
espeare, laconically known as English
2. His stimulating teaching, his wing
collars and pearl gray suits, and his
outbursts against coughing in lecture
halls, have made him a legendary fig-
ure among the students. "
Professor Kittredge is a prominent
member of many learned societies and
is the foremost living Shakespearian
scholar. He is also an authority on
Chaucer and other early English and
Scottish poets. Among his books on
literary subjects is Shakespeare: An
Address, and last year he edited the
poet's complete works..
Professor Kittredge holds honorary
degrees from Brown, Harvard, Johns
Hopkins, McGill, Oxford, University
of Chicago, Yale: He is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and an honorary Fellow of
Jesus College, Cambridge.
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